Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Honkified Deity. Dr Nathan Wright Jr., an Episcopal priest from Newark, told the meeting that blacks must get rid of the "honkified God" who, he charged, has been imposed on Negroes by white Christians. The Rev. Herbert Bell Shaw, a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and president of the committee, called on the group to evolve "a message and a dynamic leadership for the peculiar and urgent needs of the black people." The present religious task, added the Rev. Melvin Talbert, a Methodist district superintendent in California, "is to help black people find themselves, to restore...
What seems likely at this point: the Faculty Committee on Afro-American and African Studies will soon recommend that Harvard begin the blue-printing for a wide range of black-oriented courses. And what seems equally likely: the committee will not recommend that Harvard offer a Concentration in Afro-American studies...
...students admitted, so many black professors by such-and-such-a-date. Well, no one reacts to that kind of demand, that kind of tone, around here. Within a week the language had changed. Then they wanted two things--to set up a committee to explore a program of African-American studies and to set up this specific course...
After a recent unsuccessful effort to launch a relief ship to Biafra, "BROTHER"--a Cambridge-based group of students--is now supporting relief flights to the secessionist African nation...
Whitten said that BROTHER also has arranged the sending of $5000 to Terre des Hommes, a Swiss-based humanitarian organization which finances the flying of starving Biafran children to other African countries...